Considering the care she has taken to control her career, it is perhaps ironic that author Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc's own life story could be titled "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover." ...more

February 25, 2009

A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama's racial saga: Many people insist that "the first black president" is actually not black. ...more

December 13, 2008

Highlands County Administrator Mike Wright said he has no doubts that this county will progressively turn from a rural to an urban county. ...more

December 12, 2008

For better or for worse, we are a society molded by numbers. ...more

October 25, 2008

Saddled with too much debt, Tampa-based Creative Loafing Inc., the owner of six alternative weekly newspapers, sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday. ...more

September 30, 2008

A growing number of American children are taking drugs for a wide range of chronic conditions related to childhood obesity, according to prescription data from three large organizations. ...more

July 26, 2008

The U.S. Army has released a study that states that leaders in the United States were more concerned with winning the military battle in Iraq than what to do once it was concluded. That's not exactly earth-shattering news, since most of us already know that, but the historical report is interesting because it's the first major report issued by U.S. military criticizing civilian leaders. The study, "On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign" was written by Donald Wright and Col. Timothy R. Reese, along with the Army's Contemporary Operations Study Team, according to a Washington Post article. They say U.S. commanders lacked a realistic vision of what Iraq would look like after that triumph, according to the story. "The transition to a new campaign was not well thought out, planned for, and prepared for before it began," wrote Wright and Reese. "Additionally, the assumptions about the nature of post Saddam Iraq on which the transition was planned proved to be largely incorrect." ...more

June 30, 2008

In response to the "Homosexuality is not inborn" letter: One of the main reasons for debate is to raise an issue and determine whether it is fair. I will say that when reading your paper I was amazed to see the enormous effort of misdirection. I have not had to try that hard since English 101, my freshmen year of college. ...more

June 28, 2008

What's in a name? This question appears to be the determining factor of who should be president of the United States in the upcoming election. ...more

June 25, 2008

Deputy County Administrator Larry Jennings on Tuesday admitted that there could be problems with the way cost allocations for county departments have been calculated, and steps are being taken to correct them. ...more

June 4, 2008